Our New Flat @ Kallang - Selection of Unit

20th Sep 2007 - The long awaited day

Yesh! We went to HDB that day & managed to secure a unit @ our desire flat location, ie Upper Boon Keng Road, next to Kallang MRT station! So happy!! :-)

It's been our prayers since the day(May 2006) when we saw the new flats there. Looking back at the amount of hard work & time that we spent to buy the enbloc flat @ Sims Drive, we thank God for his provision & making our desire possible!

Just to share a little bit more about the flat selection process. On 1st Sep, we received the invitation letter from HBD & our queue is 738 on the 15th day of the entire exercise. Well, we are little skeptical about whether we still stand a chance to get a flat so we did some projection & monitor closely via the internet daily. After a week of study, we think there is a chance to get the flats there but maybe we will not get a good view & low flow too.

Thus, we come up with an agreement that our selection criteria will first be the layout & 90sqm. Basically, there are 2 types of layout for the 4 rooms flat, 2 type of floor size - 85 & 90 sqm & finally 2 types of facing - either facing outside or inside. We went to do a site visit on one saturday & there are 2 kind souls that let us in to take a look at our prefered layout. It was indeed the kind of layout that we want coz it's much spacious. Then we also look at how we can re-engineer the kitchen door to make it more spacious. :-) It was a good trip & also we agree that we dont want to stay too high coz Airrence find it scary! heheee...

So on the day before our selection, we are left with 15 units of the prefered layout flats. Thus, we came up with our top 30 unit numbers in the order of preference & prayed that God will keep one of the top 15units for us.

God is good. On the day of our selection, only the top choice was taken though our appointment is at 3.30pm. We get to choose our flat at 4pm and yes, we got Blk 3B #16-624!! YipEE our second choice for that day!!

On the following sunday, we went to take a look at our flat & just realise that there is a playground below so our baby adelle is very happy loh!! :p